The S1 is a

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route forming part of the

Milan suburban railway service The Milan S Lines constitute the commuter rail system serving the metropolitan area of Milan, Italy. The system comprises 11 lines serving 124 stations, for a total length of 403 km. There are 415 trains per day with a daily ridership of a ...

( it, Servizio ferroviario suburbano di Milano), which converges on the city of

Milan Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...

, Italy. The service operates over the Milan–Saronno, Milan Passante, and Milan–Bologna lines. Like all other Milan suburban railway service routes, it is operated by

Trenord Trenord is a railway company which is responsible for the operation of regional passenger trains in Lombardy. The company was established by the two main railway companies in Lombardy, Trenitalia and Ferrovie Nord Milano (FNM), to manage train oper ...

Route

S1, a

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, heads in a southeasterly direction from

Saronno Saronno (; lmo, Saronn ) is a ''comune'' of Lombardy, Italy, in the province of Varese. It received the honorary title of city with a presidential decree in 1960. With an estimated population of 39,351 inhabitants, it is the most densely populated ...

to Milano Lancetti. From there, it runs via the Milan Passante railway through the municipality of Milan to Milano Rogoredo, and finally to Lodi. The travel takes 1h29'.Trenord timetable
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History

The S1 was activated on 12 December 2004, and operated initially between Saronno and Milano Porta Vittoria. With the change of timetable on 15 June 2008, the service was extended from Milano Porta Vittoria to Milano Rogoredo, where there is interchange with regional trains and long-distance services to and from Genoa, Bologna and Mantua. To coincide with another timetable change on 13 December 2009, the service was further extended, from Rogoredo to Lodi, during the day between

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s. From 13 June 2010, all other Monday to Friday services were extended to Lodi.

Stations

The stations on the S1 are as follows (stations with blue background are in the municipality of Milan):

Scheduling

, S1 trains ran half-hourly between 06:00 and 21:00 Monday to Friday.

References

External links

ATM
– official site
Trenord
– official site English, French, German and Spanish
Schematic of Line S1
–

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depicting all stations on Line S1 ''This article is based upon a translation of the Italian language version as at November 2012.'' {{Urban rail transport in Milan Milan S Lines